[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58744-58745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28780]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[WY-921-1430-01; WYW 126227]


Public Land Order No. 7295; Withdrawal of Public Land for the 
Protection of Paleontological Resource Values; Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

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SUMMARY: This order withdraws 270 acres of public land from surface 
entry and mining for a period of 50 years to protect important 
paleontological resource values that were recently discovered on Big 
Cedar Ridge near Ten Sleep. The land has been and will remain open to 
mineral leasing.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 30, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet Booth, BLM Wyoming State Office, 
P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003, 307-775-6124.
    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior 
by Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
43 U.S.C. 1714 (1994), it is ordered as follows:
    1. Subject to valid existing rights, the following described public 
land is hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale, location, or entry 
under the general land laws, including the United States mining laws 
(30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994)), but not from leasing under the mineral 
leasing laws, for the Bureau of Land Management to protect important 
paleontological resource values:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 45 N., R. 89 W.,
    sec. 16, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\ and N\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    sec. 21, W\1/2\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, and E\1/
2\SW\1/4\;
    sec. 28, E\1/2\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, SE\1/
4\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\, and SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
    sec. 33, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\NW\1/4\ and NE\1/4\NW\1/4\NW\1/4\.

    2. The withdrawal made by this order does not alter the 
applicability of those public land laws governing the use of lands 
under lease, license, or permit, or governing the disposal of their 
mineral or vegetative resources other than under the mining laws.
    3. This withdrawal will expire 50 years from the effective date of 
this order unless, as a result of a review conducted before the 
expiration date pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714(f) (1994), the Secretary 
determines that the withdrawal shall be extended.

    Dated: October 21, 1997.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 97-28780 Filed 10-29-97; 8:45 am]
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